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Wednesday, December 13, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Light Cone Thermodynamics"

Tommaso de Lorenzo, Aix Marseille University 

 

Monday, December 11, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Resummed Photon Spectra for WIMP Annihilation"

Ian Moult, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab 

   

Wednesday, December 6, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "The no-boundary proposal: alive and well"

Oliver Janssen, New York University 

 

Thursday, November 9, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "The hadronic vacuum polarization from the lattice and experiment"
Christoph Lehner, Brookhaven National Laboratory

 

Thursday, November 30, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

MCFP Colloquium: "Majorana modes and Lifshitz transitions in fermionic and Bosonic spin-orbit coupled systems"

Jay Deep Sau, University of Maryland

  

Monday, December 4, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Axions of Evil"

Oliver Janssen, New York University 

   

Wednesday, November 29, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction via Universal Recovery Channels"

Brian Swingle, University of Maryland

 

Tuesday, November 28, 12:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "The Vicissitudes of Dark Matter at the LHC"

Philip Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Monday, November 27, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "CP violation caused by another symmetry"

Andreas Trautner, Universität Bonn 

   

Monday, November 20, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation in Nearby Galaxy Groups "

Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Princeton University 

   

Monday, November 13, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Illuminating a Dark Sector at Low Energy Experiment"

Eder Izaguirre, Brookhaven National Laboratory 

   

Thursday, November 9, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "A Brunnian multi-neutron state"
Johannes Kirscher, City College of New York

 

Monday, November 6, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Unified Scenario for Composite Right-handed Neutrinos and Dark Matter"

Hooman Davoudiasl, Brookhaven National Laboratory 

   

Monday, October 30, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Heavy-Lifting of Gauge Theories by Cosmic Inflation"

Soubhik Kumar, University of Maryland 

   

Monday, October 30, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Gluon Structure of Hadrons and Nuclei"
Phiala Shanahan, College of William & Mary

 

Monday, October 23, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Light dark sector signals from Supernovae"

Gustavo Marques-Tavares, Stanford University 

   

Wednesday, October 18, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Infrared Quantum Information"

Dan Carney, University of Maryland

 

Monday, October 16, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150,Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Hidden Glue Fragmentation and Displaced Vertices at the LHC"

Gustavo Burdman, University of Sao Paulo 

   

Wednesday, October 11, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Fermion positivity and the quantum Monte-Carlo sign problem"
Yi Li, Johns Hopkins University

 

Monday, October 9, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Searching for long-lived particles with ATLAS, CMS and LHCb"

Simon Knapen, Berkeley Lab 

   

Monday, October 2, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Order parameters and color-flavor center symmetry in QCD"
Aleksey Cherman, University of Washington

 

Monday, October 2, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Continuum Naturalness"

Salvator Lombardo, Cornell University 

 

Tuesday, October 3, 12:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "Digging deeper for new physics at the LHC: General Search at ATLAS and a New Detector for Milli-charged Particles"

Andy Haas, New York University

 

Wednesday, October 4, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "How Plasma Flows are affected by the Strong-Field Gravity of Black Holes"

Jonathan McKinney, University of Maryland

 

Thursday, September 28, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "An effective field theory approach to neutrinoless double beta decay"
Emanuele Mereghetti, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  

Wednesday, September 27, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Swimming in curved spacetime: a fully covariant approach"

Rodrigo Silva, University of Maryland

 

Monday, September 25, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Double Higgs at the LHC"

Peisi Huang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln 

 

Wednesday, September 20, 2:30pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Markovian property of vacuum state and the a-theorem"

Horacio Casini, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Argentina

 

Monday, September 18, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Searching for new physics in jets at the LHC"

Jack Collins, University of Maryland 

 

Thursday, September 14, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "The Nucleon Axial Coupling from QCD"
Evan Berkowitz, Forschungszentrum Jülich

 

Thursday, September 14, 3:00pm – 4:00pm, Room 4301, Atlantic Building (formerly CSS)

Quantum Thermodynamics Seminar:"An exploration into quantum thermodynamics - from the open-system perspective"
Jen-Tsung Hsiang, Fudan University and Academia Sinica

 

Wednesday, September 13, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Holographic complexity and the thermodynamic volume"

Phuc Nguyen, University of Maryland

 

 

Monday, September 11, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Charged Composite Scalar Dark Matter"

Ennio Salvioni, Technical University of Munich 

 

Wednesday, September 6, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Local phase space and edge modes for diffeomorphism-invariant theories"

Antony Speranza, University of Maryland

 

Wednesday, August 30, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "New tensor gravitational wave detector based on superconducting technology"

Ho Jung Paik, University of Maryland

 

   Monday, August 28, 3:00pm – 4:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Gravitational Radiation from Yang-Mills"

Alexander Ridgway, California Institute of Technology 

 

   Monday, August 7, 1:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Phenomenology of the Right Handed Heavy Neutrinos at the High Energy Colliders"

Arindam Das, Korea Institute for Advanced Study 

 

Thursday, July 27, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Selection Rule for Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation"

Basudeb Dasgupta, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 

 

Thursday, June 15, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Parton Distribution Function with Non-perturbative Renormalization from Lattice QCD"
Yong Zhao, MIT

 

Wednesday, June 14, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Pion distribution amplitude from novel approaches in lattice QCD"
Jianhui Zhang, University of Regensburg

 

Wednesday, June 14, 10:30am – 12:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "The JUNO Experiment and the Central Detector Calibration"
Mengjiao Xiao, University of Maryland

 

Tuesday, June 13, 1:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Gluon Tomography at Small-x"
Feng Yuan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

 

Thursday, June 8, 2:30pm – 4:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Electrophobic Scalar Boson and Muonic Puzzles"
Gerald Miller, University of Washington

 

 Friday, May 12, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Local Baryon Number and Unification"

Sebastian Ohmer, Max Planck Institute 

 

Wednesday, May 10, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Verlinde’s Theory of Emergent Gravity: a Status Report."

Manus Visser, University of Amsterdam

 

 Monday, May 8, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Uncovering Signals of a Low-Mass Hidden Sector"

Brian Shuve, SLAC 

 

 Monday, May 1, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Collider Probes of Axion-Like Particles"

Andrea Thamm, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz 

 

 Tuesday, May 2, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "The Vev Flip-Flop: Dark Matter Decay between Weak Scale Phase Transitions"

Michael Baker, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz 

 

Wednesday, April 26, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Gluon Polarization in the Proton from Lattice QCD"
Yong Zhao, MIT

 

 Monday, April 24, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "SIMPs and ELDERs: New Ideas for Dark Matter"
Maxim Perelstein, Cornell

  

 Monday, April 17, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Strong Phase at Colliders--New Physics Opportunities for ttbar Resonance Searches and Higgs Physics Searches"

 Zhen Liu, Fermilab 

  

Wednesday, April 12, 12:30pm – 3:00pm, Bloomberg Hall, Johns Hopkins University

Joint Maryland-Hopkins Particle Theory Seminar: "Where is Dark Matter at the LHC?"

Antonio Boveia, Ohio State University

   

 Monday, April 10, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Supernova Constraints on Dark Sectors"

Sam McDermott, YITP Stony Brook 

 

 Monday, April 3, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "New Searches for Sub-GeV Dark Matter"

Yonatan Kahn, Princeton University 

 

 Monday, March 27, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Hints of New Physics in Semi-leptonic B-meson Decays"

Diptimoy Ghosh, Weizmann Institute of Science 

  

 Monday, February 27, 4:00pm – 5:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Bounding Milli-Magnetic Charged Particles"

Anson Hook, Stanford University 

 

Friday, February 17, 12:00pm – 1:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Going with the Flow: Complexification of Path Integrals and the Sign Problem"
Gökçe Başar, University of Maryland

 

Monday, February 20, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions"
Soeren Schlichting, Brookhaven National Laboratory

 

Thursday, February 16, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Exploring the Low Mass Frontier in Dark Matter Direct Detection"

Tongyan Lin, University of California, Berkeley 

 

Monday, February 13, 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "The Substructure of Jets"
Duff Neill, Los Alamos National Laboratory

 

Tuesday, February 14, 2:00pm – 3:30pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "The Road to Nuclear Physics from Standard Model"
Zohreh Davoudi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Friday, February 10, 1:30pm – 3:00pm, Room 1136, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Hidden Sectors and New Signatures"

David Curtin, University of Maryland

 

Wednesday, February 1, 2:00pm – 3:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex 

Gravity Theory Seminar: "Gravitational Limits on Locality"

William Donnelly, University of California Santa Barbara

 

Wednesday, February 1, 3:30pm – 5:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Nuclear Theory Seminar: "Nuclear Physics for Beyond-the-Standard-Model Searches"
Martin Hoferichter, University of Washington Institute for Nuclear Theory

 

Monday, January 30, 4:00pm – 5:00pm, Room 3150, Physical Sciences Complex

Particle Theory Seminar: "Probing Nonstandard Neutrino Cosmology with Terrestrial Neutrino Experiments"

Akshay Ghalsasi, University of Washington

 

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For information about the center, please contact:

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Phone: 301-405-6016
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